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Mm .1 Vv;. GASTOIJIA cotto:; 39 cents today AILY 1 READ THE .WANT ADS ON PAGE 6 gZT.W 07XEX ASSOCIATED PSSSS , VOL. XLI. NO. 63 GASTONIA, N. G SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1920 SINGLE COPY 3 CZTS d i mi I A W. PTT1R V EAS f -.!, ! . 71 mm. a DISSOLVED CpffilE'JT IS FORMED JRevoltiriff -Troops Have , cupied Wilhelmstrasse Power of the ; State Has Passed Into Hands of Director Von Kapp Who Becomes Chancellor - Socialist Parties Have Declared a General Strike - History of Ebert Government: J -. PARIS. March 13 A Droclamftiion issued in Berlin today . declares that the government of -and that the power of the state . neral Director von Kapp, who becomes Chancellor and has i appointed; General von Luettwitz commander in chief, of the ,: :jnilitary forces, Berlin despatches state. " ' ' " .Reuters Confirms Rumor. XONBQN, -March 13 A proclamation was issued in Berlin ilhis morning' at 10 o'clock stating the German government had 4 ceased to' exist, .according to a Reuter's despatch from the Ger : iman capital received here. ; - '-'"-' j ' Revolting troops entered Berlin this morning and occupied Wilhelffl5trasse, the despatch declares. No acts of violence are Vsreported. , ' New Chancellor Proclaimed. , ' PARIS, March 13 A military pronunciamento has been is- - sued at Berlin proclaiming a new chancellor, according to ad- vices received here. . . . . ', ' ' , . . i' :- n : The .proclamation declares the national assembly dissolved. - " ,v It is announced that a new government is Deing formed. ", , - -The socialist parties have. declared a general strike, the despatches add.,4 : -y :v v '; The issuance of the proclamation followed the occupation : of the Wilhelmstrasse, where the government buildings are - situated, by troops who had xeturned from the Baltic and held in bartacks at Doeberitz, in the suburbs. The troops entered Berlin this morning, it Is stated.' . . . VV v . v The names associated with the new revolutionary, move iment in Germany indicate its reactionary character.- It appears 'that Germany is in the throes of the frequently predicted coun ; -ter-revolutionary, monarchist struggle:. ; ;v ; J - Dr. von Kapp, reported as having assumed the chancellor- iship, is probably Dr., Wolfgang Kapp, a former conservative ,.,v .member of the reichstag; and general director of the Germatt -agricultural society. He was one of the deputies who early " in 1918 urged the government to speed up U-bt$t building. He .became president of the Fatherland party, the notorious Pan German organization, which urged that Germany carry on the warvto the bitter end, .-After the abdication of Emperor Wil-! . Jiam and the signing of the armistice. Dr. Kapp was one of the onen for whose arrest the independent socialists clamored on " 'the ground that he and his associates had been responsible for the continuation of the war and the hindering of peace. ; Major General Baron von Luettwitz, who, according to the ; despatches, has been named commander in chief, was military governor of Berlin in the early days of the war. ' He later was a i tcommander pn the V.erdun front.? When the German treaty .came up for action by the government last June, he was one I oi the leaders of the military party prominent in opposition to sthe,peace,terms.f?'": ::J'h ' '. ' Ut has' an American. wife, who was a Miss Cary, of Cleve land. He always has been classed .as thoroughly Prussian. -p Bfor the trsr GeBertl XaettwlU keld tfctf port t military iatUche. of . th Owsu cmbaoior At Londoa sod Ister si Petrofrsd. H wm bora b. AprU , '1865. HU fsthor, Mu Yn&trt tmttwit did in. 1887. 'Hi mother, 2ms voa OsUtvU, UtlU U?iaf.: ; The new eommaadev ia chief's mr tiae to Mim Ouj, whote ttaidea same m Msry CurtU Csry.itook plsc oa 'July' 14, 18g2. '8h wis born on Jsa ttarr , 1869. Tho eouplo aare two thll dna. Inns laad Ottftav. - f ' ' ' v -t Thero ha bma' ' itrongr.' eW ie lief ' bothinald aad.putaide , Gennany tha tho pan-Gnaaa , monarchist ; party m, merely biding it time add. a wait ing a opportunity " movement to. aeize control of affair, Thla belief, for one thing, that earned the alUea worriment when they considered the - aearneea ; Df - former Emperor : William retreat at Amerongea to the Oermaa border and 'prompted atroog representationa to: Hot lnA ci the danger to the pece"of Ger inany and, too rest of Surope, of .Tua pretence there,'; In, reaponae to thia, the Datch' goyeromernt promised fto keep a loae' guard ow the ex-raler.; Former Orowa Prince .Frederick wmiam alao ia W refugee ia Holland, but bin retreat at Weiriagen ia further jemoTed from the -Gersaa border. ". : , ; , J 'While there 1aa been ao" hint in the early report of an tertunr at 3Jerua to ' indicate that the movementi looked;to a mtoratioa' of the Hohensollera dynasty, the fact that development ia apparently f a Bumarehiatie nature w&l esuao close attention to be paid any aewe from Hol land regarding the former royal person acea who have been making that country their honie for more than a year part. Interest ia this phase of the alruatioa la all the more strengthened by the- ladka ' tioni that have eome from "Berlin that the reactiowiTy morement was poesitly precipitated by the fact that -a Eohen- siiy IS ANDrA JB' Entered Berlin and Oo the empire has ceased to exist hat passed into the hands of aollera pfipee, Joachim Albreet, kad been arrested and .was about to be tried nd possibly imprisoned ' ia connection with the recent demonstratioa against Tenck officers at the hotel Adloa. . - i: :t "The despatches from Berlin under ye terday'a date, telling of the discoyery of a reactionary plot ia which the lead, ere' were the very men mentioned la to day 'a advices of the . plot's ; success, would indicate that the government had explicit foreknowledge of the i attempt, and this fact makes an explanation of the wported easy , success of -. te anti govenunent forces ' in entering : Berlin diiScult of explanation. It may be noted that the names of the two men most prominent ia military .affairs under the old regime, Field Marshal von Hinden burg and General Ludendorff , so far have not been. mentioned ia connection .'with the new development. The field marshal, indeed, had only recently announced his willingness to become a candidate for the the German 'presidency in the elections that were to be held later this year. while Berlin despatches in January also credited General Ludendorff with tne in tention of becoming an active participant in the next German political . campaign. - If there has in fact been an effective overturn of the present government ia Germany the effects upon the relations between. Germany and the allies and the carrying out of the terms, of the treaty of Versailles can hardly be estimated. With, a militaristic regime in control in Germany there seems little1 doubt that the outside pressure for the stnict exe cution of the stipulations of the peace pact would be markedly increased, par ticularly from such nations as France and Belgium, with their territory contiguous to thaf of the former empire.. It has been generally 'conceded, bewever, that ' (CoLiinuei oa pags S.) - r " " . l,:EHC!!i!lTSTO HAVE. ; SMOKER TUESDAY KIGHT Department of Mercantile Af fairs of Chamber of Com' merce Will Hold. Important , Meeting Next Tuesday Night, March 16. r-s-. i: Breaking no fake advertising, early Saturday night closing, the summer dos ing' schedule and other matters of im portance will be considered by the mer chant members of .the' Gaston la Chamber of Commerce at a meeting to be held Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at the of fices, called by the Department or Mer? chantile Affairs. . - '"-': " The department met yesterday and dis cussed several matters at present need ing attention and decided to submit the propositions mentioned to the merchants for a decision, one way or the other. roe meeting wiu be in the nature ox a smoker. '; Director Jno. R. Bankin, of the Department of 'Merchantile affairs, will preside. The members of tne depart ment, present yesterday besides Chair man Bankin were J, W. Culp, J. II. Mat thews, W. E. Barnes, Z. B. Harry, W. H Toole and A. 8. Karesh. DR JOHN F. CO:i . DIES OF KiJURIES Prominent Presbyterian Divine native of Cabarrus County, Dies From Injuries Was Personally Known to Many ' Gaatonians. -t f 8T. LOUIS, March. 13 BvV John F. Cannon, former moderator of the gen era! aasmbly of the Southern ' Presby terian church, died here last Bight of in juries suffered in the afternoon when be was struck by an automobile.': He was 69 year old, having been born in Ca barrus county, North Carolina, .January 3 J, 1851. He held pastorate ia Vir ginia and Tennessee., , '. AflTICLE TBI IS - SK.IEIVHJIT UODIRED '(By The Associated Press.) WAHTTTTfOTOV Uanh 13.Tnfnu1t,W tion in tne senate of a modified reserva tion, to article . 10 of the league of na tions covenant caused speculation -today as to whether President Wilson would in-, form democratic leaders of his attitude toward the new qualification, v In the past he has usually taken step to let his party know whether pending reserva tions to the treaty were acceptable to him. 'v.. ,'' - s-r-'?--. The modified reservation did not serve to clarify the befuddled situation. In stead, it caused postponement of the ex pected vote on article tea, which probably wiu not come until Monday or Tues day. V ; ;.V. .-r V-: - "i Irreconcilable opponents of the treaty condemned the substitute Qualification aa a "republican capitolatioa" to the white house, while the mild reset rationiata of the party followed the leadership ef Sen ator Ledge, who, introduced It. Dem- oirats generally had' nothing 'to Say about it except Senator. Hitchcock, who decliaed to accept it. ':';"' Despite defections from the , republi- can ranks because of the changes ia the reservation,' the republican leaders said they could hold thirty votes for it, leaving thirty-four vote, fer the democrats to deliver if the treaty ia to be ratified with the substitute attached. 'Effort to amend the. substitute probably will be made, ia which ease all existing liae nps may ' be overturned, s , ; . , . , -.; MINOSITT SXPOST COAX v.. : COStHITTXS SUBMITTED. WASHINGTON, March 13. John 7. White's minority report on the bitumin ous coal strike settlement was submitted today to President Wilson,' who received the majority report of the coal commis sion two days ago. v "; At the white house it was said that it would take the President two or three days to go over the reports and it was in dicated that no further step looking to a cop rombe were to be expected before next week. v Meantime, the reports will be withheld. x '. . V WASHINGTON, March 13. ' The labor controversy in the bituminous coal industry ' which has engaged the at tention of the government almost con stantly since the break between employ r.and employe ia tne national , strike last fall today is awaiting the personal decision -of President Wilson. . The com mission appointed .by aim to suggest a settlement aaving split in it award, two proposals which nave originated from, it are before him for. consideration.: PARIS, March; 13 Georges Carpen tier, heavyweight pugilistic champion of Europe and hi wife, embarked .today at Havre for the United Bute. T DID HOT KEEP HMIIiFOR!.! Admiral Sims Tells Senate In- ; v Testigating Committee (That ; Department Kept Hun m Is norarrce of Plans and Voli ' ciea.' , - , . '"' (By The Aamciated l'ree. WASHINGTON, March 13 Di mentary evidence in support' of charge that the navy department f aifcd to keep him informed as to its polk: and plans was presented today by Be: Admiral Sims to the senate investigai ing committee. v 4 Delay and r confusion," 'resul from tne department s failure to notty him of important dispositions and mi meats of naval force within the are! of his command, aawett as elsewhere he said, adding that the result also was create in the minds of allied officials an impression that be was not supported by and ia the confidence of his government. ; Because of his ignorance of the de partment ' plans, the admiral continued, the allied admiralties carried on direct negotiations witH the navy (department ia Washington. . Allied team work was impaired and American interests - suf fered as a result, he said, adding: "Undoubtedly at times such indepen dent negotiations resulted in direct con flict with my recommendations." Admiral Sims tefcS the committee the first intimation he bad that he was not in the full confidence of the department came soon after he vafcmitted his first re ports from London. . He learned then, by accident he sadd, that am agreement had been reached by the navy department and British and French naval officials ia Washington early in April regarding the disposition of American naval forces. The terms ef this agreement were cabled to Admiral Jellieoe, by the British rep resentative on April 13, 1917, he declared. The officers alao charged that witbouf notifying him beforehand, the depart ment arranged with the French naval attache to send ten or more yachts to combat submarines oft the French coast: arranged to establish two naval bases in France; sent v naval . aviation . forces to that country; despatched six destroyers from Boston; sent a hundred cannon to Prance on naval colliers; started a cam paign in the newspapers for a North sea mine' barrage; despatched the fifth 'des troyer squadron . frony St. Johns to Queenstown and sent four additional des troyers from New York to join his force. Some of these vessels, he said, arrived overseas before he. knew of their alloca tion to his command. In most cases, he said, he received belated i Information ( from French and British sources, but sel dom m time to make proper adjustments and v arrangements ' tot . receiving . the ships. -,. '..:- .;' ? The admiral declared that while he protested continually1 against, the de partment's failure to keep him inform ed, the situation waa not remedied. : 'That great confusion existed with' regard- t the establishment of the bases ia Franc and that the' department 'itself did not know -what it wanted was dem onstrated, the admiral said; by a letter he received carry in August from the' of ficer assigned to "command the Bordeaux has. This officer, he said, wrote that "the Situation' ia Franc is not clear to me-" and that when be had asked upon .being ordered to the 'command of the base what hi duties, were, hy had been unable to obtain any information 4 'JL asked the same question and got the same answer from all the heads in the navy department,' the officer said. "After waiting about four weeksr'X re ceived order to proceed, with a party of eight persons, but still no instructions. " .r A - similar : condition existed with re gard, to American naval aviation force sent abroad. Admiral Sims eaid. , . ';-- ' ' , ':-' -. Awarded P. S, Croas. ' . The following dispatch .from ll Wash ington will be of Interest throughout Gas ton county, since Rev. J. B., Cochran, the father of the 8gt. Cochran mentioned wa at one time pastor , , of . New Hope Presbyterian ehurch in the county;. : , The war . department authorixed, the following distinguished' service u-ros awards today: . , . . . , .. ' Bergt. Carlisle C. Cochran, medical de tachment, :30th infantry For extraor dinary heroism in action near Crezany, France, July 15, 1916. Sergeant jCoch ran, though severely injured in one foot early in the morning, persevered in the work of rendering first aid and assis tance to the wounded exposed to heavy hell fire, until it became necessary for him to bo evacuated later ia the after noon: Emergency address: Mrs. ABie C. Cochran, Huntersville; Sergeant Coeh ron. belongs to an old and highly res pectable Mecklenburg county family. ' STREET CARS KUXmKG. ATLANTA, Ga., March 13-fltreet car were running again here today, af ter a three day .strike that paralyzed the local and . interurbaa lince. " :-- : ? Tho motormea and conductors voted yesterday to accept the 15 per cent wag iaercase. - Frieflrich EbertAV as Elected First President of Nejw Germpli Republic February 1 1, 1919, by NaHojmk'Assembly His Government Con cluded Peace Negotiations With Allies New Government Was Promised to Be a Govern ment of the'Tfcople. 1 he Aasoeiated Press) Friedrich Ebert, formerly head of the mala committee of the Beichstag and a leader of the Social Democratic Party was elected first President of the new German progressive republio" , for a term of seven years on February 11, 1919, by the . National Assembly at Weimar. He has been characterized as type of Pan-German or imperialistic Socialist. , - It was the Ebert government which a- rose from the ruins of the Hohensollern dynasty and which enabled the Entente Allies to conclude peace with Germany. On November 10, 1918, when former Emperor William abdicated and fled, Ebert was the Imperial Chancellor,' hav ing succeeded Prince Maximilian of lin den who was instrumental in negotiating the armistice. He at once assumed com mand and succeeded in quelling revolu tionary outbreaks. . The red flag was hoisted over the Brandenburg Gate and the royal palace after wild scenes in Ber lin where the people shouted " Long Live the Republic!" and sang tne Mar seillaise.' : ' ' - v. Y ' ; ; ' "The new government will be a gov ernment of the people," Chancellor Ebert said. "It must make every effort to se cure in the quickest possible time peace for the Cjerman people and consolidate the liberty they have won. ' The new government has taken charge of the ad ministration to preserve the German peu? pie from Civil war and famine and to ac complish their legitimate claims to auto-1 nomy." ' " The Independent Socialists, including a radical element favorable to Bolshev ism end known as Spartacides complicat ed Ebert 's problem. , When he became Chancellor many of these radicals in cluding Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux emburg, were freed from prison and the two mentioned were subsequently assae slnated. :i-VT'''!'''''.f'.v:' S The National Assembly which electad Ebert was formed for the purpose oi a dopting a Constitution. ' It document which was approved' last August t pro vided that V the " executive power lies with the people V ; The power of the upper chamber of the Beichstag waa li mited to the British House' of Lords. There were special protection -fbr labor and generally accepted .rules of inter national law' were incorporated la tM new Instrument. Ebert toftk- the oath of office on August 3 and two days later the National Assembly ceased to exist, tt be ing superceded by the new Beichstag. v rhilllpp Bcheidemana, was ' th. first Premier jot . Germany under Ebert Gus tavo. Noske', formerly Minister of jDe mobilizatioa and before that Governor of Kiel, was, named the first Minister . of Army and Navy. By reason ef his dras tic enforcement of new. regulations . a becam known as a "dictator". f . ; v 7 Other members of the firsts Ebert cabi net follows: .-" '' -:''' ' : Minister of Interior, Herr Prcus; Min ister of Justice, Herr Bendsberg; Minis ter of Commerce, Herr Mailer; f mister of Labor, Herr Bauer ; Minister of For eign Affairs, Count -von Brockdorff -Ban-tzan, former German Minister to Den mark: Under Foreign ' Minister, Ton Bichthofen ; Minister of Finance. Herr Sehiff er ; Minister of : Postal and Tele- rraphs. ' Herr Geisberg ; - Ministers with. out Portfolio, Dr. Mathias Erzbcrger ; Armistice Commissioner, former ( State Secretary and leader of the ' Centrist party; Eduard David, President of the National Assembly and Herr WisseL'" . The Ebert government underwent many changes by reason of political, economic and iopu!ar demands. ' r : The first real crisis, to threaten . the Ebert regime, however, arose "over ' the questioa of accepting ; the peace treaty terms. Ebert Scheidemana and other leaders were opposed to yielding to the Entente demands. : Scheidemana resigned and a pro-treaty cabinet including Dr. August Mueller and ex-labor . secretary Bauer, former socialist member, of -the. Reichstag, was organized. Bauer m a speech at Weimar 'before the National Assembly denounced the treaty in strong terms but announced ' the government 's decision to sign. -- S '"t ,;- "i : For weeks before the revolution broke (rut ia Berlin there was steady run en Germaa banks. Ebert, then Chancellor, OFTHE HOIPLLEBPI HOUSE ' had a conference in Berlin oa November 25, 1918 with 70 delegate from, various parts of Germany, said: "Everything' was in ruin when we took charge. Now, a Socialistic republic has replaced the monarchy and power has been put in the hands of the workmen and soldiers." The first aim to-be achieved, he said, was peace and the security of aa econo mic basis. Liberty, be maintained, was worthless without food, and employment and it was a result of this conference that the National Aasembly met last spring to devise a constitutional form' of Government -' ' ; : - Meanwhile the provisional government had been in an almost constant state of flux. Ministers came and went, Owing to scarcity r of , food, clothing and fuel, conditions in many part . of .Germany . were reported desperate and there were many rumors that Soviet 'government -would supercede the Ebert regime. President Ebert had the backing of the Moderates of Germany almost from, the beginnbg.) One reason for this waa -that' when he sueeeeded Prince Maximi lian he announced that property rights would be respected that no banks would be seized and that the government would up hold the German war losses and Pyv all claims on the state.. The President in a New ; Tear mani festo said that 1920 would decide whether. Germany would maintain herself as a. nation. . A week later he was threatened bgr a mob in Stuttgart' " On the pre ceding December 12 the Ebert cabinet ' fall was reported as likely as a result of . the Allied demands 6vcr the Scapa Flow sinking. ' ;. '' '.'-'' '.. :.-; 1j PUBLIC GUARD OCCUPIES ' VORWAXRTS OFFICE BERLIN, March 13 The' public se curity guard this morning occupied the offices of Verwasrts,' sad the semi-official news agency. The services to the ' provinces and abroad were previsional- tf nspaded. ' . ,..:.. , i , . PJUSEO TETCLQ .' : v ', (By The 'Associated Press.) ''y - ;,;': ' CHICAGO, March 13Bauom , for Peter . Wi Summers, Americaa . ranch owner captured near. 8aHaa Crua last week by . Mexieaa ' bandits under Jesus Morellas, was raised from $500 to 5, 000 and March 12 fixed aa the last day ' for ' payment, according to a ' telegram from American Consul Burliagham at Saliaa Crua to two sisters ef Summers here, -. ' . 7 .,' ' , V' Informed through the, state depart-, meat that th ransom had been set at the smaller figure, the woman said, bro ther Luke D. Summers, of Chicasha, Okla-., raised the money and forwarded -it to Senator Owen, ef Oklahoma, to be turned over to the bandit. Their hopes were blasted, they said, with receipt of the message from' Comul Bur ling hame, who added: . ) t-'.; '- y . ; .,.-v4" s' v. . . , "One or two thousand dollar,; if available, might save him. ' No funds' available here. .. .. The sisters, Mrs. E. K. Switxer and Mrs. J. A. Humphreys, were inform ed from Washington that the state do- ' partinent was doing everything possible to have Summers released. ' , Recruiting Campaign. ; Corp. Max J . Millet, of Greensboro, and Pvt. E. T. Coward, of Atlanta, ar rived ia the city Friday from Charlotte. They are traveling throughout the coun ty at . present with - the machine gun truck ia the interest of the recruiting campaign. ; From here they go to Ashe vOl today, taking with them the army relies that have beea on display at Van Sleen's, and other war equipment. Corp. Millet.relates an experience recently ea eountered in Chatham county between Sanfordand Goldstoa. . Th mud was so deepijust after a rain that th truck f four ton weight. had to be ja vl and for four hours tiicy cut i'-j r i m.r cy on ui nearly two cor ) V 3 c sumed with which a rc:i i I some distance out.
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